Our built heritage - Newfoundland and Labrador

Video made in 1988 about architectural history and the Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador.

[@heatherrussell8255]

And much thanks for featuring St. Paul's Anglican Church in Trinity; it's one of my VERY favourite wooden churches in NL.

[@heatherrussell8255]

Another treasure we lost was the concrete stone Anglican Church on Church Street in Bonavista (1925-1977). The building had structural issues and the Vestry of the time deemed it more economical to build a new church rather than effect repairs to the concrete one. However, beautiful stained glass windows from that church (which, architecturally, rivaled any cathedral in the British Isles) now live on in the current church, and several new businesses on Church Street. The Newfoundland Salt Company is one of these businesses.

[@candytoo3729]

FYI I know this house.

[@DB-gr7ch]

Since about 1975, NLers have re-clad or re-built virtually every outport house with white vinyl siding. Because it's cheap and doesn't ever need painting. Entire villages are nothing but plain, plastic, white boxes. Soul-crushingly, mind-numbingly ugly.

[@doingfolklore]

affordable, less painting every year from salt water. True but not a sin

[@DB-gr7ch]

@@doingfolklore But lying to tourists that they'll come and see a joyful land of rainbow coloured clapboard houses is a sin. A Top Ten commandment, in fact.